2nd POSTING: COMPUTER ASSISTED WRITING.

What is computerized writing and how can one improve their writing using the computer?

Computer assisted writing or computerized writing is a program or software that allows its users to expand their skills on writing and at the same time improve their language. Computerized writing is based on educational program that have been created or used to enhance the way of learning and teaching for teachers and lectures.

Computer assisted writing have interactive programs such as animation, video, sound and much more. This elements make the learning process becomes much more enjoyable especially for students. Computerized writing will improve student’s knowledge in a sense that, student will be assist on every part in writing. Moreover, the structure of sentence wrote by students will be analyzed and corrected for mistakes.

Computerized writing helps students to organized, develop, construct and provides frame work templates so that the process of writing will be comes more efficient. Computerized writing should be applied for everyone moreover, with today’s technology writing will be easier and fun with the correct way of learning.

Computerized writing activities:

There are many computerized writing activities for students to try. These activities consist of English Vocabulary Games with Pictures; Click the Letters in the Correct Order, Sentence Machine, and fun with Randomly-Generated Sentences. Actually there are many more fun activities for students for students to learn from. Computerized writing activities does not limits students only to writing sentences but students can also expand their activities on jokes, song, poems and many more. Computerized writing relates on any program or software that guide its users to produce better understanding on language at the same time improve enhance the way of learning. Students must not limit their learning environment in classes and based on papers and pen only. To achieve more, students must be able to use the latest technology so that learning becomes a process of understanding computers technology and language.


Examples of software that you can use:

Writing in APA style 1.1:
This e-book will show you how to format your essay to conform to the style as set out in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th Ed.). It contains examples of referencing of the most common sources, the way to layout your task.

Writing Suite 2.0:
Writing Suite comes with spell check, thesaurus, and dictionary! Also includes the most powerful text editor on the market. You get Tray Suite, Presto Edit, and all available spell checking dictionaries (currently 25).

Research Paper Writing:
Research Paper Writing Help is an e-book made to guide you in writing a research paper.

Xtream reading and writing 1.3:
Xtreme Reading and Writing presents the proven process used to teach reading and writing so successfully that even slower children can read and write any word they can speak in three months or less, and finish first grade reading two grade levels.

Examples of URL that host computerized writing activities:

These URL connect students to an interesting webpage where students could learn and enhance their English language.

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrammarquiz.htm
http://www.manythings.org/caw/intro.html
http://aliscot.com/bigdog/parallel.html
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar
http://owl.english.purdue.edu
www.myenglishteacher.net